Electric Heater Recommendations?
Hi again, You all were so helpful with my propane/heater question I thought I would throw out another topic to get some feedback on. I need to decide between radiant/oil filled/ceramic heaters. Any...
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bluwtr49 wrote:
Electric heaters all put out the same amount of heat. They are all ~1500 watts so the only difference is how they distribute the heat.
I go for the smallest cheapest ones ($15.00 to $25.00) available it will do just as good a job as one 14X the cost.
I have several of the $75 oil filled heaters at my work, for use in the apartments when the gas furnace is not working right (to avoid overtime charges). They take to long to warm up, once you unplug them, they have to cool about 15 minutes before they are cool enough to pick up and put into a closet for storage. You can imagine your dog or cat getting burned by them (or grandkids who do not know better than to touch anything).
I carry the $15 - $25 fan and electric heater in my RV. They all have a thermostat, and are adjustable from low to high heat output. If it is say 55F outside, then running on low can keep it warm, while not cycling off to much. I like the ability to warm up the bathroom in a couple of minutes and to set it to fan only for 10 seconds, then it is ready to go into the closet for storage.
As stated above, any electric resistance heater with a 1,500 watt input will put out the exact same amount of heat. It is just that the $25 2 pound heater that I use are less expensive, put out heat almost instantly, and cool off in 10 seconds.
Those "Amish" heaters with a pair of 750 watt quartz lights inside them are not making any more heat than a standard electric heater. In fact they might not produce a full 3,400 Btu's per KW because some of the electricity is made into light, not heat. What they must spend on TV adds is incredible, and then they ask someone to spend over $200 on a heater! Their "Claim" that customers write in and say "I saved over $200 a month in my heating bills" - I wonder about some of those claims. Perhaps that customer had a very leaking gas furnace air leaks, or oil fired heaters, or something. Perhaps that customer saw their gas bill go down by $200 and only heats one room in the home now, and the electric bill went up by $75 and they did not mention that. . .
Fred.
